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Did Trump buy his own cringey NFTs? There's precedent! XD

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4 ups, 2y
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3 ups, 2y,
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You can't make this stuff up. What a train wreck of a family. Ironically enough, it's just like Arrested Development. We're just waiting for the arrests.
4 ups, 2y
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2 ups, 2y
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The artwork's very meh. A high school art student could do this without breaking a sweat.

The photo it's based on is absolutely horrendous
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3 ups, 2y,
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To be fair, if I were into NFT's then if I owned any I'd want it to be one of myself.

#VanityIsCool
0 ups, 2y,
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NFTs are dumb, faddish trinkets, but at least they come with artwork attached, which makes them marginally more interesting than crypto. But every bit as much of a scam

The thing I don’t get is how someone as stinking wealthy as Melania can commission art for an NFT rollout, make a whole big deal of it, and have it come out looking this… basic.

It looks like Melania threw a couple thousand dollars at someone’s friend of a friend who has a daughter who “has this really cool hobby.”

I guess the blahness of it matches her personality type, which is “the quiet, vaguely foreign one in the Mom’s wine club who always hangs out in the back and everyone finds out later is married to a member of the Mafia.”

This is somewhere between average high school and college-level watercolor paintings. If this crap were at a local art fair I’d walk right past it. Especially the one with just the eyes. Blech
2 ups, 2y
Personally, I think they're fairly nice watercolors of a w**re.
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0 ups, 2y,
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Personally I'm not a fan of bashing First Ladies. I can't think of one who wasn't an awesome woman. Who cares if Melania is quiet or if she didn't pay a million dollars to have the next Picasso commissioned. We're too freaking critical of people for the most minute, irritating things and it's tearing everyone down.
3 ups, 2y,
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Well, we were in uncharted territory having a snarky 3rd marriage trophy wife model who has posed nude as First Lady. I think that makes her fair game.
3 ups, 2y
For real.

It's gauche to criticize anyone who hasn't *actually done* anything to merit criticism, and that includes virtually all First Ladies.

Melania? Well... [see, comments.]

Different things are different.
0 ups, 2y,
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If this were standard-issue post-Presidential grifting, then whatever. Every ex-President and their wife needs a second act. Most of the time, it’s giving speeches and fundraising and founding Presidential libraries and joining corporate/charity boards and those sorts of things. Certainly the Clintons did, and the Obamas have.

If those things rub you the wrong way, have at it. Honestly it is vaguely unsettling even if for a “good cause.” Ex-Presidents carry a certain weight and responsibility for the rest of their lives by virtue of their standing, and should be squeaky clean.

In the case of the Trump Dynasty, they don’t have a charitable or legacy-library-inclined bone in their bodies, they aren’t exactly sought-after speakers for reasons you might guess, and pretty much already are The Corporate Board of the family business. So what else to do?

Hop on the NFT bubble and milk it until it busts, apparently. First Melania, now the man himself!

Ridiculing Melania Trump over this nonsense isn’t out of place because it is, in fact, ridiculous.

Whereas the attacks on Michelle Obama were disgusting because, well, they were disgusting. Transphobic (as in, implying a non-trans person actually is). Racist. Sexist. All three at once.

Attacking Jill Biden would be gauche simply because there’s nothing to attack her for. Not to my knowledge. If she launches her own NFT line, though, go ahead.
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0 ups, 2y,
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It's entirely your right to bash Melania, I'm not gonna stop you, but if Michelle Obama came out with an NFT line, for fun or whatever, and the images were the same quality I sincerely doubt you'd bash them to the same degree. Maybe that's me projecting, but I truly think it's rather uncool to mock First Ladies for any reason, really, unless it's one truly criminal, immoral, or otherwise disreputable.

Just me offering my $0.02.
1 up, 2y,
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I mean, I think this post-Presidential portrait is cringey. The famous Obama “Hope” campaign art by Shepard Fairey showed hunger, urgency, focus.

This is… what now?

Obama feels boxed in here. Maybe it’s an apt metaphor for how Obama felt trapped by the Presidency itself. Maybe it’s trying to send some kind of environmental message. Maybe it’s just seeking to break the mold of traditional depictions of ex-Presidents (the kindest way of looking at it, I guess). Who knows.

As far as I know, this portrait wasn’t commissioned by Obama personally to hop on the latest bandwagon or turn a quick buck or chase any kind of clout or hype.

It’s hard to imagine how I’d feel about Michelle Obama pushing NFTs simply because it would be so out-of-character for her.
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0 ups, 2y,
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And all that is totally fair. I am many things, but one of them is NOT an art critic. My interest in all this is purely predicated on the fact that I prefer people be given a great deal of leeway in what they choose to do and going after First Ladies for the sake of a cheap shot is just...lame.

Just me. But when people bash Melania it irks me. She didn't, if I recall, want Trump to run and tried to stop him. She never really associated herself with his campaign and really didn't get on board with his combative political style...honestly she didn't do a whole lot compared to most First Ladies, which to me seems to make her a smaller target.

I got on a rant. Sorry. Not trying to cramp your style, just spouting off.
1 up, 2y,
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100% agree she didn’t want this public political life. She wanted to be married to a billionaire and drink daiquiris by the poolside. Nothing wrong with that. At least, nothing horribly wrong with it.

She may have objected in private to Trump’s political turn, who knows how forcefully. Ultimately, she was just as powerless to stop Trump’s run at destroying America as anyone else, which makes her yet another figure in a long list of disappointments. But she is, you know, his wife. So the disappointment hits different.

While Melania never really adopted Trump’s combative persona, it’s also evident that her main and perhaps only interests are in guarding La Famiglia, which she’s done at key moments in a manner reminiscent of a mob wife.

Read the above statement. Just read it.

She put this out to coincide with the testimony of her ex-chief of staff, who was cooperating with the Jan. 6 panel, in an obvious hit-job to try to damage that witness’s credibility.

The story Melania tells here simply doesn’t add up. She was at the White House that day, but had no idea what was going on right outside? She had literally no idea about her husband’s weeks of bloviating about the election? She had no idea about the significance of what Congress was assembled to vote on that day? Her chief-of-staff being off the premises of the White House (but in a position to witness some of the Jan. 6 activity) was a “dereliction of duty,” how, exactly? And what were your duties to the country in a situation like this, Melania?

This letter is claptrap that only a rabid pro-Trump partisan would swallow. If this is really her story, she should give it under oath.

Query also: Was this letter even written by Melania? The signature is very suspiciously like Donald’s. Did she write a first draft to which Donald himself made heavy edits? Did she literally just gift her letterhead to her husband and, “say have at it?” Did she know about this letter at all?

So many questions, and knowing both of them, our chances of ever knowing the truth are near zero.

Finally, Melania was just as complicit as Donald in the petty snub of not welcoming the Bidens at the White House on Inauguration Day, as every outgoing Presidential couple has done for over 100 years. How’s that for “tradition?”

I bet she’s under a very unfavorable prenup.
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0 ups, 2y
Honestly man I'm not interested in putting the effort into challenging this that it requires, so, have at it. I think she's a woman trying to navigate all this with as much dignity as her past and her husband will allow. I sincerely doubt she had any say in welcoming the Bidens, for example. Could be a prenup, could just be a deep-seated loyalty you and I can't understand (I don't think she's religious enough to rule out divorce, haha), but either way I've always been far less willing to slander officials than most.
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